Bruce Stocks is a partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. His practice emphasizes corporate transactions involving private companies and investors, including mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, and equity and debt financings, as well as corporate governance matters.

Bruce has extensive experience representing private equity funds, fundless sponsors, and other private equity investors in investment transactions and financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and sales of portfolio companies. He also represents portfolio companies in add-on acquisitions, financings, and other transactions.

A significant portion of Bruce’s practice currently involves the hospitality industry, where he represents investors and owners, operators, and developers of hotel properties in connection with joint ventures, debt and equity financings, acquisitions, dispositions, and hotel management agreements.

Bruce also has significant experience representing a major gold mining company in acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, royalties, and other commercial transactions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, and Africa.

Bruce has earned the AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-AVVO and has been named a “Leader in Their Field” by Chambers USA in the area of Corporate/M&A since its inception.

Bruce has also been selected for inclusion in Colorado Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law. He was named by The Best Lawyers in America as the 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” for Mergers & Acquisitions Law in Denver.

Recent Representative Transactions

  • Represented Newmont Corporation in the formation of Nevada Gold Mines LLC with Barrick Gold Corporation, involving substantially all of both parties’ properties and operations in northern Nevada
  • Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Under Canvas, Inc.
  • Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisitions of the Camelback and Blue Mountain ski resorts in Pennsylvania.
  • Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition of the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, for $190 million.
  • Represented KSL Capital Partners in the formation of a joint venture and the joint venture’s acquisition of Snowmass Base Village.
  • Represented CHB Capital Partners in its sale of Logic PD, Inc., an integrated electronics design and manufacturing firm.
  • Represented Sage Hospitality and Sage Hotel Capital in connection with hotel and mixed-use hotel development joint ventures.
  • Represented Sage Hotel Capital and related funds in connection with joint ventures for the acquisition of numerous operating hotels.
  • Represented Sage Hospitality Resources, LLC in the $127 million sale of The Nines Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
  • Represented Newmont Corporation in its acquisition of Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine in Colorado from AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. for $820 million plus a royalty.
  • Represented Newmont Corporation in the sale of Midas mine and the related ore milling facility located in Nevada to Klondex Mines for $83 million.
  • Represented Gart Capital Partners in the sale of the Powderhorn ski resort in Colorado.
  • Represented Gart Capital Partners in its growth equity investment in Topo Designs.
  • Represented Gart Capital Partners in its acquisition of Work World and affiliates.
  • Represented Reliance Worldwide Corporation in its acquisition of Securus, Inc. dba Holdrite
  • Represented Newmont Corporation in connection with an investment by Sumitomo Corporation in Newmont’s subsidiary Minera Yanacocha SrL.

Practices & Industries

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Colorado

Education

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1984

Brigham Young University, B.A., 1981

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